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Chapter 3 Flashcards

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What is a MRI Scan?

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Computerized enhancement to map out brains structure

Magnetic fields, and radio waves

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What is a EEG Scan?

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Electroencephalogram

Observes changes over seconds

Electrical signals from brain

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What is a CT Scan?

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Computerized Technology

Enhanced x-ray of brain structure, by putting multiple x-rays together

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What lesioning?

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Destroying a piece of the brain to see what it’s function was

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What is the function of Wernicke’s Area?

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Understand spoken language

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What is the function of Broca’s Area?

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Speech

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What is the function of occipital lobe?

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Vision

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What is the function of the temporal lobe?

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Hearing

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What is the function of the olfactory?

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Smell

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What is the function of the parietal lobe?

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Touch

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What is the function of frontal lobe?

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Taste

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What lobes are responsible for short-term memories?

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Parietal, upper temporal, and occipital lobes

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What is the function of the limbic system?

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“me eat, me sex”

Regulation of emotions, memory and motivation

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What is the function of the hypothalamus?

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Controls and regulates:

Body temp, sexual arrousal, hunger, thirst and endocrine system

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What is the function of the lateral hypothalamus?

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(Brings on hunger)

Stimulate: eat

Destroy: no interest in food

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What is the function of the ventromedial hypothalamus?

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(Depresses Hunger)

Stimulate: stop eating

Destroy: continuously wants to eat

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What does satiated mean?

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You’re full

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What is the function of the hippocampus?

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You would remember if you saw a “hippo” on “campus”

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What is the function of the amygdala?

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How you process memory

Involved with fear and aggression

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What is the function of the thalamus?

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Involved with consciousness, sleep, and Suntory interpretation – not smell (olfactory)

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What is the function of the medulla?

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Controls blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing

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What is the function of the pons?

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Involved with facial expressions

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What is the function of reticular formation (midbrain)?

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Arousal, attention, cardiac reflexes, motor functions, regulates awareness, and sleep

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What does Gustation mean?

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Taste

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What are fissures?

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The wrinkles of the brain

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What is the function of the cerebellum?

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Controls coordination

27
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What is the function of the corpus callosum?

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Connects the two hemispheres of the brain

28
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What does the central nervous system consist of?

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Brain and spinal cord

It controls behavior

29
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What is the somatic nervous system made up of?

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Nerves that connect to voluntary skeletal muscles and sensory receptors

30
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What is the function of afferent nerve fibers?

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Carries information inward to the central nervous system from the periphery of the body

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What is the function of efferent nerve fibers?

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Carries information outward to periphery of body

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What is the autonomic nervous system made up of?

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Nerves that connect to the heart, blood vessels, smooth muscles and glands

Controls involuntary functions

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What is the function of the sympathetic division?

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Mobilizes body’s resources for emergencies

Fight or flight response

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What is the function of the parasympathetic division?

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Conserves bodily resources

Activates the body to save and store energy

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What is the function of the endocrine system?

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Consists of glands that secrete chemicals into the blood stream to regulate bodily functions

36
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What is the master gland of the endocrine system?

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Pituitary gland

37
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What is the function of hormones?

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Slower reaction time but it is a chemical substance released by endocrine glands

38
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What does the left hemisphere of the brain mostly deal with?

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Language, speech, reading and writing

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What does the right hemisphere of the brain mostly deal with?

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Nonverbal processing and musical tasks

40
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What is an agonist?

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A chemical that mimics the action of a neurotransmitter

41
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What is an anti-agonist?

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A chemical that opposes the action of a neurotransmitter

Curare darts-stops neural firing

42
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What is the GABA?

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Always inhibitory

Regulation of anxiety, and sleep

43
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What is a glutamate?

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Always has excitatory effects

Learning and memory

44
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What are endorphins?

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Internally produced chemicals that resemble opiates, in structure and effect

45
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What are reuptake inhibitors?

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They block reuptake

46
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What is a PET Scan?

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Positron Emission Tomography

Examines brain function and activity

Measures chemicals

47
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What the function of glia?

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Supports the neurons

“Glue”

48
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What the function of dendrites?

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Receives information

49
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What the function of the soma (cell body)?

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Contains a nucleus and much of the chemical machinery common most cells

50
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What the function of myelin sheath?

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Protects the axon

If damaged it causes multiple scoliosis

51
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What the function of the terminal buttons?

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Small knobs that secrete chemicals called neurotransmitters

52
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What the function of synapse?

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Where information is transmitted from one terminal button to a dendrite

53
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What is action potential?

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The brief shipped in a neurons electrical charge that travels on the axon

54
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What is the resting potential of a neuron?

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inactive- stable and negative charge

55
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What is the absolute refractory period?

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Minimum length of time after an action potential during which another action potential cannot begin

56
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What is the relation to behavior of dopamine and what disorder comes with it?

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Control of voluntary movement and alertness

Parkinson’s(low) and schizophrenia(high)

57
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What is the relation to behavior of norepinephrine and the disorders that may come with it?

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It is the modulation of food and arousal

Depressive disorders

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How does serotonin relate to behavior and what disorders come with it?

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It’s the regulation of sleep, wakefulness and aggression

OCD, eating disorders, depression

59
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How does acetylcholine related to behavior and what disorders come with it?

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It relates with attention, arousal, memory, and motor movement

Alzheimer’s(lack)&&paralysis(high)

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How does GABA relate to the behavior and what disorders come with it?

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Regulation of anxiety sleep and arousal

Anxiety disorders

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